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ARLINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark Warner was re-elected by a razor-thin margin of less than one percentage point Tuesday in a race that polls had predicted him winning handily. At 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, the unofficial results from the State Board of Elections, reported through Politico, with 99.5 percent of the state’s 2,557 precincts reporting, were: Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, 1,072,487; Republican Ed Gillespie, 1,060,337; Libertarian Robert Sarvis, 53,594. The state website failed to function for most of the night, so the Board of Elections directed readers to Politico, which also gets its information from the state. In percentage terms, it stands at Warner 49.1 percent, Gillespie...

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ARLINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark Warner was re-elected by a razor-thin margin of less than one percentage point Tuesday in a race that polls had predicted him winning handily.
At 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, the unofficial results from the State Board of Elections,...

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